Unleash the Leader Within
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES:HUMAN & TECHNICAL
Life is full of its ups and downs. One day, you may feel like you have it all figured out. Then, in a moment’s notice, you’ve been thrown a curve ball. You’re not alone in these feelings. Everyone has to face their own set of challenges. Learning how to overcome challenges will help you stay centred and remain calm under pressure.
Centre of Transformational Leadership conducted a session on OVERCOMING CHALLENGES:HUMAN&TECHNICAL) which was facilitated by Mr. Ram Srinivasan, Co-Founder- Zasti, on Friday, 26th August 2022, which proved to be highly inspirational.
Ms. Muskan P, member of CTL welcomed the gathering. With the introduction of the resource person by Dr. Anita, Dean of Student Affairs, the workshop commenced.
Our Chief Guest shared his past experiences on how to overcome from the challenges faced by the Youths. He shared his personal life experiences, on how he overcame multiple challenges like dyslexia and penury. In spite of many hurdles and failures he persisted and never gave up. He also shared how many companies grew tenfold by understanding what the user wanted, or perceived the product. One example was how in the initial stages, the software companies were trying to compete with each other, till they realised that when 80% of the people still preferred writing on paper, their competitor was paper and pen. He also shared product anecdotes to show that it was important for a product to be user friendly.
The key takeaway was that to be a leader one must lead ourselves; assumptions and familiarities are the biggest foes in one’s path. Another key takeaway was that we should focus on what’s in our control, and not waste time lamenting over what is not in one’s control. Finally, he said that all his product development was fuelled by design thinking.
A few CTL members expressed the takeaways they received from the workshop. Vote of thanks was given by one of the CTL member Ms. Honnashree. It was a tremendous learning opportunity for all the participants.
Topic: Forging Leadership in Technology
KCG College of Technology in collaboration with Aspire For Her (AFH), conducted a session for our students onthe topic “Forging Leadership in Technology” on 26th August, 2022. Ms Priya Mohan Dass, Networks& Operations Manager, AFH represented the AFH team.
Dr Krishna Murthy, HOD – CSE , KCG College of Technology gave the Welcome Address and Dr Frank Vijay, HOD – IT, KCG College of Technology introduced the speaker.
Ms Ashima Purohit, Director of Engineering Fresh Works, addressed our students on the topic. It was a great interactive session for our students to know more about Leadership Management. She touched upon communication skills and listening abilities. She also said that a leader is the person who steers the whole team and the leader has to take the responsibility of the result of the team work and at times it is OK to fail, as failures also teaches lesson.
Our students had questions as how to handle criticism, lay-off, gaining trust of the team members and many more. Ms Ashima very patiently handled the questions and answered them out, from her own real life experiences and work place experience, which made the students to connect themselves better with the speaker. The session was more informative and lively.
The session came to an end with Vote of Thanks proposed by Ms D Revathy, Student Counsellor, KCG College of Technology.
